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Butlerian Farquaad

@maxsweeney.bsky.social
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art direction for film/tv. kinda winging it, generally

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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
nice
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
me in the bookstore: okay that’s fucking huge but i’m not gonna show my fear to the staff. (continues to buy) one week later, the special place on the shelf where i put the next book i plan to read:
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
does this sloth look like steve zahn
a sloth that absolutely looks like steve zahn
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
we’re doing airplane selfies, folks. more and more you’re hearing about it.
Selfie of a grizzled yet youthful 42yo man on an airplane. He has a tight, disdainful look on his face despite having consumed two martinis before boarding
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
the Jamie Lee Curtis “drinking beer” meme
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
made an incidental reference to politics while talking to a vendor in paris. i unironically love this shit.
a professional whatsapp exchange that concludes with me saying "Also...been reading the news out of France. It's just never ending huh!"

they (french) respond: "Politics... the door is narrow between your own interest and the national/citizens interest. Between the political power and our ultra-richs/elites..

And in general the vision of the life, opinions and convictions of "standard people" are far and completely different than the elites..

Our word/society has never changed since the dawn of time (kings, Napoléon, César etc) the balance of power between humans is nowhere near changing 🙃

Open discussion, just sharing my point of view"
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
It was pretty good! Many good lessons I won’t elaborate on.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
khao soi so spicy i have to dab my eyes kind of night
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
reading that the “living document” that is our constitution is really more of a 350yr old pest-ridden corpse that should have been redrafted 2-3 times already but i’m choosing to absorb this information in a chill & hot manner.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
jamelle is bean posting!
the "morpheus is fighting neo!" scene from The Matrix (1999)
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
spambots will now act like you just handed them some headphones and told them how the shins will totally change their life
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Tim Robinson as Sammy Paradise. He’s ruined. He’s a dead man.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
initial pitch meeting was rough
hidetaka miyazaki comped into the don draper drunken pitch meme. the sign on the easel says "furtive pygmy souls"
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
accomplished homemade sichuan chili oil. it’s pretty good but am i playing myself if i don’t add msg
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Me. Burns from The Simpsons stating “Since the beginning of time man has yearned to fuck the stars.”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
i don’t post on IG much anymore but sometimes a good thought™ happens
an IG story featuring a close up of a Mai tai cocktail. A still from the film Devil’s Advocate (1997) is superimposed. It features Al Pacino and the subtitled quote “It’s my time now.”

“My time” is replaced with “MAI TAI”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
me in the national security team group chat
A from The Conversation (1974) of Gene Hackman as protagonist Henry Caul. He is crouched under his bathroom sink, listening to captured audio on a pair of headphones.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Not my home, but I know my way around
an overhead map of Narshe, a snow-covered mining town and starting location in Final Fantasy VI
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
dissociating with Simone Weil at a very on-point wine bar in orlando(?!)
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
1989 NES pro gamer squad
A photograph from the late 80s featuring two young boys posing in front of a CRT television. The tv displays a Nintendo Power VHS paused on the words “POWER UP YOUR NINTENDO SCORE”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
tfw there was a fish in the percolator
A screengrab of Jack Nance as the character ‘Pete Martell’ in Twin Peaks. He’s alarmed due to having just discovered there’d been a fish in the percolator.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
literally any time i order pizza
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
timelapse of the last three hours when looking south from topanga peak
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
timelapse of the last three hours when looking SE from mt. harvard (NE of alta dena)
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
the “this seems fine” meme - pulled from the webcomic by artist KC Green - with a photo superimposed from the palisades fire of january 2025, showing a man smiling into a camera that he’s holding with his left hand while using a cell phone in the right to light his face. two women stand behind him, similarly smiling into the camera
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
big news i have acquired and perfected my family’s walnut bar recipe that goes back three generations 🫡 my midwestern ancestors are smiling down on me
a photo of walnut bars cut to portion on a large baking sheet. they look really good and are in fact really really good
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
very lucky to once again have a “photographer friend” after years of flat boring selfies marking the ravages of time
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The rooftop scene from It Follows except the monster is replaced with a disturbing illustration of an anthropomorphized egg squirting milk into a bucket labeled “nog”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Image of Godwin, Prince of Death from Elden Ring. A really nasty flat boy.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
was given responsibility of choosing the music during christmas eve dinner
the “you know I had to do it to em” meme - featuring a young man dressed in a short sleeve button-down tucked into knee length shorts - with an image of Charlie Brown’s face superimposed over his head
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
a still of the final scene from the film Interstellar (2014) featuring Anne Hathaway on an alien planet now destined to be her home.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
peppers, eggplant, tomato, potato. nightshades absolutely cleaned up in the draft
the “car dealer slaps hood of car” meme

Car Dealer: “THIS BABY CAN FIT SO MANY FUCKING NIGHTSHADES”

Car: “THE BEST CUISINES IN THE WORLD”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
who’s gonna tell them about skeets
Screengrab of new Bluesky users—part of the Great Swiftie Migration—sharing their joy upon learning that posts are called “flutters”, all of them apparently as yet unaware that they’re called “skeets” in practice
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Mariscos Jalisco - a food truck in Boyle heights that has been a fixture of the community for years. Their tacos de camaron are the best Mexican street food I’ve had in the US. Seasoned shrimp pressed in a tortilla that is then deep fried and topped with sliced avo, hot salsa, and radish.
An image of shrimp tacos served up on a styrofoam plate. Picture doesn’t do it justice.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
the original “you’re the man now dog” meme but it says “if they will raid a house for a squirrel they’re sure as shit going to come for you”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
The astronaut “always has been” meme but it says “if they’ll raid a house for a squirrel they’re sure as shit going to come after you”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Still frame from Mulholland Dr (2000) of Dan (Patrick Fischler) collapsing behind a diner after confronting the dark presence from his dreams.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
i’ve been dog sitting for a friend this week, such an autumnal lady
photograph of a dog - kind of a corgi hound mix - with coloring like autumn leaves to match the pile of autumn leaves she’s sitting in
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
mmm can’t wait to see how many of these I don’t finish before the end of the year.
A stack of books on my reading list. In descending order:

“The Possessed” by Albert Camus
“Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow” by Gabriel Zevin
“If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller” by Italo Calvino
“A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud
“Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth
“The Death & Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs
“Selected Poetry” by Rainer Maria Rilke
“Crime & Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The Poetics of Reverie” by Gaston Bachelard
“Lyrical & Critical Essays” by Albert Camus
“The Power Broker” by Robert A. Caro
“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshanna Zuboff
“A Cause d’Une Fleur” by Maria Medem 

There’s no way in hell these are all getting read before end of 2024 (staring at “The Power Broker”)
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
this is the food equivalent of that one photo that looks like everything and nothing all at once
A photo containing dozens of objects that upon close inspection are completely unidentifiable.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
item description reads like tim robinson trying to sell me a coffee mug. 10/10
Screengrab of a coffee mug on aftermath’s online merch site.

Reads:
Big Mug
$15.00
A big 15oz mug with an Aftermath logo on it. Holds a LOT of coffee.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
did a little huevos rancheros this morning there’s no shame in it!
a photo of homemade huevos rancheros and a french press on a cute lil cutting board
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
in celebration of me taking five minutes to make a post here is some OC of me on the 2 wearing my new favorite shirt.
An image of a man on the subway with a t-shirt that reads “ERIC ADAMS HATES NY”
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
just happy to be here
A graphic showing that I’m Bluesky user #92,183 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
this show is hilarious
A shot from 3 Body Problem of a scientist’s headshot (?!?) on a bulletin board with an X across her face written in thick red sharpie to denote that she’s just killed herself.
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Butlerian Farquaad @maxsweeney.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
“If successful, it would hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple — where hardware, software, and services intersect.”
A creepy promo image of a woman wearing the Apple Vision Pro. She smiles serenely, her eyes visible through the front of the headset.
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